I think the parental problem could be quite lessened if parents taught their kids that relgiious beliefs were beliefs and nothing more to allow for the child to make up its own mind, because in my opinion, the problem is not so much parents passing on their religious beliefs but their insistence to peddle their beliefs as truth, which I assume is what Dawkins is truly objecting to.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
